Whenever I saw Stephen King’s novels on bookshelves, I looked right past them. That old adage about covers aside, the visual vernacular of King always screamed gory, corny, and loaded with cheap thrills. Dark colours and creepy illustrations, paired with the author’s name in a dominating font, suggested predictable offerings, anodyne adrenaline spikes — a sort of automated user…
Bronwen Jervis
Bronwen Jervis is a former literary assistant to John Irving and speechwriter for Justin Trudeau.